A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. – Walter Bagehot
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – Walter Bagehot
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot
I wasnt a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called creative movement. The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, Now go dance. So for me, dance has always been about self-expression. – Carrie Ann Inaba